Neck-yoke.



B. P. HANSON.

NECK YOKE.

APPLICATION FILED nscllfi. 1913.

Patented: Apr. 6, 1915.

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TE STATS ATENT orruo BENNIE P. HANSON, 0F MONTICELLO, IOWA, ASSIGNOR 0F ONE-HALF TO LONE GRENARD, OF BANGROFT, IOWA.

NECK-YOKE.

. Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented A t. 6, 1915.

Application filed December 15, 1913. Serial No. 806,842.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, the undersigned, BEN- NIE P. HANSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Monticello, in the county of Jones and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and usefulv Improvements in Neck-Yokes; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to neck yokes and has for one of its objects the construction of a device combining lightness, rigidity, and practically indestructible.

Another object of this invention is the provision of a neck yoke comprising parts thereof so constructed and arranged to most efi'ectually resist any undue strain which may be exerted thereu on. a

A further object 0 this invention is to provide a neck yoke constructed, preferably of metal, and which is efficient, durable and which can be manufactured at a nominal cost.

These and other objects will more fully appear and the nature of the invention, the construction, combination and arrangement of parts as described in the specification, will be clearly understood as defined in the appended claim and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the invention showing the device in its complete form ready for use. Fig. 2 is a front elevational view of the device shown in Fig. 1

with the exception that one of the parts has been removed to illustrate the assembling of the parts in the interior thereof. Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse sectional view on the line 3-8 of Fig. 2 showing the mounting of the parts at the center of the device. a vertical sectional end elevation on line 4-4 of Fig. 2 which shows the arranging of the loops at the ends of the device.

Like reference characters denote similar parts throughout the several views of the drawings and reference being had to the same, 1 denotes the neck yoke constructed preferably of metal and 2 denotes two metal bars of rectangular form in cross section and at the center thereof and which bars are designed to be swaged or rounded toward the ends 3 thereof to assume a tubular form at the ends thereof when the bars are joined Fig. 4: is

U-shaped hanger which hanger. is provided 1 with'the horizontal portion 4 and the depending side members 5 which side members 5 are each provided with a suitable aperture for the reception of the swivel bolt 7. The hanger is adapted to embrace the pair of rivets 6 and within the space between the bars and which rivets are designed to retain the hanger and the bars 2 in rigidly secured relation.

Arranged upon the swivel bolt 7 of the hanger 4 is a tongue support 8 which support is formed by doubling the same upon itself and which is also adapted to surround the swivel bolt 7 as shown at 10 and which tongue support is securely held around the swivel bolt 7 by the circular metallic clamp 11 and which clamp plate is aflixed to the tongue support through the medium of the rivets 12. The tongue supporting member is provided with enlarged apertures at the ends thereof which apertures are adapted to register when the ends of the support are brought together after its attachment to the swivel bolt 7 thus providing for the registration of the apertures 9.

Arranged at each of the ends of the yoke 1 and between the meeting faces of the semicircular ends 3 of the bars 2 are the strap loops 15 which loops are preferably square in shape and form and which loops 15 are adapted to embrace the pair of rivets l6 and which rivets are adapted to hold the semicircular ends of the bars 2 in rigidly secured position and to thus also maintain the strap with each other at their respective ends of the bars 2.

While I have described and illustrated the preferred embodiment of my invention, hereby reserve the right to make such alter ations and variations therein as I may deem expedient and which will not depart from the spirit of this invention or conflict with the scope of the claim.

,Having thus fully described my invention what'I claim as new and desire to se-' cure by Letters Patent is:

In a neck yoke comprising two bars, rectangular in form intermediate of their ends, said bars being swaged to form tubular ends terminating in a semi-circle, said bars being spaced apart at their rectangular portions intermediate of their ends; an inverted U-' shaped hanger mounted between the two bars at the center thereof; a swivel bolt con- BENNIE P. HANSON.

Witnesses GEO. L. LovnLL, RUTH L. NELSON.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

